CANADA
Leader-Post
By Kerry Benjoe, Leader-Post
November 6, 2012
Indian residential school survivors are getting some assistance from the Canadian Centre for Abuse Awareness (CCAA).
The national organization is planning events for survivors who are in the process of resolving their claims through the Independent Assessment Process (IAP).
“We applied for and received funding from the Indian Residential School Adjudication Secretariat to assist survivors of abuse from residential schools with being prepared to go into their adjudication for their compensation,” said Sanderson Layng, CCAA president and COO.
“Most people, who are applying for compensation, have already done that but now there is a waiting time between when their application is heard and when they meet with an adjudicator. Our project (Group IAP program) is working with survivors, as a group, and looking at how the group can be supportive of one another and create support mechanisms.”
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